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Oscar and Lucinda Directed by Gillian Armstrong Produced by Robin Dalton
Timothy White
Mark TurnbullScreenplay by Laura Jones Based on The novel
by Peter CareyNarrated by Geoffrey Rush Starring Ralph Fiennes
Cate BlanchettMusic by Thomas Newman Cinematography Geoffrey Simpson Editing by Nicholas Beaumon Studio AFFC
Dalton Films
Meridian FilmsDistributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures Release date(s) December 31, 1997 Running time 132 minutes Country United States
Australia
United KingdomLanguage English
FrenchBudget AUD16 million Box office $1,897,404 Oscar and Lucinda is a 1997 romantic drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. It is based on the 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey.[1]
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Plot
In mid-1800's England, Oscar Hopkins (Ralph Fiennes) is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Plymouth Brethren family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Lucinda Leplastrier (Cate Blanchett) is a teenage Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of Australia at that time. She buys a glass factory and has a dream of building a church made almost entirely of glass, and then transporting it to the Australian Outback. Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship going to Australia; once there, they are for different reasons ostracized from society, and as a result "join forces" together. Oscar and Lucinda are both passionate gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar her entire inheritance that he cannot transport the glass church to the Outback safely. Oscar accepts her wager, and this leads to the events that will change both their lives forever.
Cast
- Ralph Fiennes as Oscar Hopkins
- Cate Blanchett as Lucinda Leplastrier
- Ciaran Hinds as Reverend Dennis Hasset
- Tom Wilkinson as Hugh Stratton
- Richard Roxburgh as Mr. Jeffries
- Clive Russell as Theophilius
- Bille Brown as Percy Smith
- Josephine Byrnes as Miriam Chadwick
- Barnaby Kay as Wardley-Fish
- Barry Otto as Jimmy D'Abbs
- Linda Bassett as Betty Stratton
- Geoffrey Rush as Narrator
Box Office
Oscar and Lucinda grossed $1,768,946 at the box office in Australia,[2] which is equivalent to $2,458,835 in 2009 dollars.
See also
References
External links
- Oscar and Lucinda (film) at the Internet Movie Database
- Oscar and Lucinda (film) at AllRovi
- Oscar and Lucinda (film) at Box Office Mojo
- Oscar and Lucinda (film) at Rotten Tomatoes
Films directed by Gillian Armstrong 1970s The Singer and the Dancer (1977) · My Brilliant Career (1979)1980s 1990s Fires Within (1991) · The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992) · Little Women (1994) · Oscar and Lucinda (1997)2000s Charlotte Gray (2001) · Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst (2006) · Death Defying Acts (2007)Categories:- 1997 films
- 1990s drama films
- American drama films
- Australian drama films
- British drama films
- English-language films
- French-language films
- Films directed by Gillian Armstrong
- Films based on novels
- Films set in the 19th century
- Romantic drama films
- Fox Searchlight Pictures films
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